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6.10.16 Week: 23 \ Day: 162
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 87°[1910]
Record Low: 28°[1998]
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Quote of the Day
Power tends to corrupt; absolute power
corrupts absolutely.
~Lord
Acton
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Observances Today
Alcoholics
Anonymous (Founders) Day
Ball Point Pen Day
Banana Split Days-11 Link
National Lemonade Days-12 Link (2nd Weekend)
Poultry Day Link
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Day of Portugal
(Portugal)
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Observances This Week
○ 4-11
International
Clothesline Week
Bed Bug Awareness Week
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week Link
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week Link
National Sun Safety Week Link
Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness
Week Link
○ 6-12
National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
○ 9-12
Superman
Days Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1639 1st American log cabin
at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1760 NY passes 1st
effective law regulating practice of medicine
1847 Chicago Tribune
begins publishing
1908 1st flying club,
Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1924 1st political convention
broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1933 John
Dillinger robs his first bank, in New Carlisle, Ohio. He takes $10, 600
1939 MGM cartoon
character Barney Bear debuts
1939 Charles Frazier and Beryl
Webster marry in Denver
1943 FDR becomes 1st
US president to visit a foreign country during wartime
1963 US
President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men &
women
1975 Rockefeller panel
reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1977 Apple Computer ships
its first Apple II computers
1985 Coca Cola announces
they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
2007 "The
Sopranos" series finale on HBO (infamous "cut to black" ending)
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1719 Jacobite
Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel.
1793 1st
public zoo opens in Paris
1904 James Joyce meets the
love of his life, Nora Barnacle
1947 Saab
produces its first automobile.
1956 16th
modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1980 8
Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners escape from Crumlin Road Gaol in
Belfast using handguns smuggled into prison
1997 Khmer
Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of
Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great
lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl had a hot but good time at her grandson’s
graduation. Mary heading to Phx this weekend, after staying here, due to the
heat down there last weekend.
Another
warm one but the wind is helping a little.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Letter
Juggle 8
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Take
the given words, and by moving a single letter from one word to the other, make
a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For
example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating two
synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Died - Ante
2. Laze - Fibre
3. Clock - Lose
4. Font - Heard
5. Snaked - Tripped
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…Harper’s Index…
3.3-Factor by which the
number of reported US syphilis cases has incerawsed since 2000
9/10-Portion of new cases
that occur in men
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
nakedplanet The Great Wall of China: over 2,300 years old
spanning more than 13,000 miles.
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2 jokes for the day
The
stoplight on the corner buzzes when it's safe to cross the street. I was
crossing with a coworker of mine, who is not so bright. He asked if I knew what
the buzzing was for?
I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Without missing
a beat, he responded, "What are blind people doing driving?"
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As the new drivers ed student drove
through the red light at the intersection, the instructor admonished him and
asked, "Why did you not stop for the red light?"
The student replied, "My brother doesn't."
The instructor directed him to return to the school for more instruction before
any more driving could take place. On the way back, the student approached the
same intersection with a green light, he immediately slammed on the brakes
shocking the instructor as well as other drivers. "Why did you stop at a
green light?"
The student replied, "You never know when my brother's coming."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------------
The Ninja of Serpents ------------*
We
should all be environmentally conscious. It is our planet, after all, and we
all have to live here. But one Brazilian activist took things a bit extreme
when he filmed himself walking across broken glass while holding five snakes in
his mouth to raise awareness of deforestation. Arteval Duarte, an activist
promoting preservation of the Amazon Rainforest, filmed himself holding the
tails of five living snakes in his mouth whole walking across a trail of broken
glass in the state of Para. Duarte often involves snakes in his demonstrations
and calls himself 'The Ninja of Serpents.' The activist previously released a
video online showing him holding the heads of four live snakes in his mouth to
raise awareness of the Amazon's plight.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
95- Philip
Mountbatten,
Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince,
Mr Elizabeth II
[89] Saul Bellow,
Canadian-born American author (Mr
Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976), born in Lachine, Quebec (d. 2005)
[89] Barry
Morse,
actor (Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard,
Winds of War) [d2008]
[83] Maurice
Sendak,
author/illustrator (Where The Wild
Things Are), born in NYC, New York (d. 2012)
83- F Lee Bailey,
Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard
case, OJ case)
73- Jeff
Greenfield,
media commentator (Firing Line,
Nightline), born in NYC, New York
[57] Hattie
McDaniel,
1st African American actress to win
an Oscar (Mammy-Gone With The Wind), born in Wichita, Kansas (d. 1952)
57- Eliot Spitzer,
American politician (Governor of
New York 2007-8), born in the Bronx, New York
51- Elizabeth
Hurley,
English actress (Austin Powers: International
Man of Mystery, Christabel) and model, born in Basingstoke, England
[47] Judy Garland,
[Frances Gumm],
American actress/singer (Wizard of
Oz), born in Minnesota (d. 1969)
34- Tara Lipinski,
figure skater (1997 World Champ),
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Historical Obits Today
@32-323 BC Alexander the Great,
Macedonian king, either fever or
excessive wine
@59-1099 El Cid [Rodrigo
Diaz de Vivar],
Spanish general strategist, famine
@87-1909 Edward Everett Hale,
American author
@52-1941 Marcus Garvey,
US African American leader (Back to
Africa Movement), strokes
@67-1967 Spencer Tracy,
US actor (Woman of the Year, Father
of the Bride), heart attack
@61-1971 Michael Rennie,
actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), aneurism
@80-1988 Louis L'Amour,
western writer (Bowdrie)
@61-2002 John Gotti,
American gangster, cancer in prison
@73-2004 Ray Charles,
Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and
blues, acute liver disease
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
Dined - Ate
2. Blaze - Fire
3. Lock - Close
4. Front - Head
5. Naked - Stripped
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Disclaimer:
All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’
info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other
source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the
information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult
to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted
[1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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